Poetry Terms
Poetry Terms
Logical Fallacies
quotes
quotes
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What is Assonance?

Repetition of vowel sounds in repeated words in lines of poetry. "Green Leaved Peach Tree."

100

What is Personifaction?

Giving something non-human human qualities.

"Friday calls to us from far away." 

100

Scapegoating:

 Singling out a person as a target. The boy on trial is scapegoated at times by various jurors.  

100

"Green Leaved Peach Tree."

Assonance 

100

"Friday calls to us from far away."

Personification

200

What is Alliteration?

Repetition of consonant sounds in repeated words in lines of poetry. "Peter Piper Picked a Peck…"

200

What is a Simile?

Comparison of two unlike things, using the word "like" or "as." "Your face is like a stone."

200

Appeal to Authority

Using the status of an expert to substitute for the possibility of being wrong. "My doctor told me I'm going to the NFL"

200

"Peter Piper Picked a Peck..."

Alliteration

200

"Your face is like a stone"

 Simile

300

What is Slant Rhyme?

End words, paired, that seem to rhyme, but that don't exactly rhyme. "Brow//Flow"

300

What is Synedoche?

Part stands for the whole. "Ten thousand swords stood against us."

300

Appeal to Pity, Fear, Shame, (and/or other emotions):

The emotion is made to seem greater than the reality. "Officer, if you give me that ticket, my parents will kill me!"

300

"Brow/Flow"

Slant Rhyme

300

"Ten thousand swords stood against us."

Synecdoche

400

What is Apostrophe?

Speaking to something that can't speak back

"O, rose, thou art sick." 

400

Red Herring:

Distracting by diverting attention to another issue. "Never mind the milk, comrades, the harvest is more important."

400

Slippery Slope:

One thing made to guarantee a series of bad consequences, one after the other. "If I fail math, I won't graduate, and then I will eventually end up homeless."

400

"O,rose, thou art sick."

Apostrophe

400

"He is too short, so he can't be a good English teacher."

Personal Attack

500

What is a Metaphor?

Comparison of two unlike things. "Your face is a stone."

500

Personal Attack:

 Attacking the person, not the issue. "He is too short, so he can't be a good English teacher."

500

Bandwagon:

Appeal to group values, even if those values are wrong. "Everyone is cheating, so I will, too. It's no big deal."

500

"Your face is a stone"

Metaphor

500

"My doctor told me I am going to the NFL"

Appeal to Authority

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